New Orleans Yesterday on the ACORN International website (www.acorninternational.org), we released the third of our investigative, research reports in connection with our Remittance Justice Campaign. The bottom line is that the amounts of informal transfers are huge and underestimated. They are wildly cheaper by many orders of magnitude (0.25% to 1.25% compared to World Bank …
Author: wade
End Invisible Unemployment Now
New Orleans More than 14 million statistically unemployed adding up to a jobless rate of 9.2% cannot really be invisible, can they? How could they be invisible especially when the real numbers of unemployed who are now “discouraged” job seekers, workers in the informal economy, and “portfolio” workers balancing a list of tasks while trying …
Associations Closing on Seniors with Outstanding Condo Fees
New Orleans There was a startling AP story by Michelle Conlin and Tamara Lush that thudded on my porch a couple of days ago that opened my eyes to another dimension of the foreclosure fiasco that continues to seep the country: the finances of homeowners’ associations. I can remember taking a look at these …